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Thirty years ago, Professor David Groves founded the Key Centre for Teaching and Research in Strategic Mineral Deposits in the Department of Geology at the University of Western Australia (UWA). The ‘Centre’ as it was better known, was the first of its kind in Australia. It operated until 2004 when succeeded by the Centre for Global Metallogeny (CGM). Over the weekend of 17th-18th November 2018, a 30-year reunion celebration of students and staff from the original Key Centre and successor CGM was held.

The CET hosted another successful Members’ Day which was held on Tuesday 27th November 2018, at the UWA Business School.

SEG UWA Student Chapter 2018 Report

A new four-year $3.6 million research partnership between The University of Western Australia (UWA) and Rio Tinto Iron Ore will lead to improved efficiency in geological modelling, through innovative data science solutions.

The World Bank – CET book “Transfer Pricing in Mining with a Focus on Africa – A Reference Guide for Practitioners” was launched in London’s Chatham House on 7 June 2018 as part of an international session on “Making the Most of Africa’s Resources: Addressing Transfer Pricing in Extractive Industries”.

The Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET) held a ‘Meet-and-Greet’ luncheon on Tuesday July 24th at the Curtin University St. Georges Terrace venue in the heart of Perth’s CBD.

CET, in partnership with the University of Queensland (UQ), have been successful in winning an Australia Awards – Africa tender for the provision of a course on ‘Planning, monitoring and implementing extractive investments’ over the period 2019-2022.

Offering several PhD and postdoc opportunities at UWA, Monash University and the Geological Survey of Canada that may interest current SES PhDs & Masters students, so please circulate to your students.

The remote Pilbara region of northern Western Australia is one of Earth’s oldest blocks of continental crust, and we now think we know how it formed, as explained in research published in Nature Geoscience - 16 April 2018 and in The Conversation.